If you are a store owner, and you had an incident occur within your building or on your grounds where someone pretended to become injured, you will most likely want to prove your innocence in the matter so you will not need to pay for the person's falsified medical bills or loss of wages. Proving someone is faking an injury may be a bit difficult, but with the proper documentation and help from a lawyer, like those at Walsh Fewkes Sterba, you may be able to convince a jury and judge that you were not at fault. Here are some of the ways you can prove an injury was falsified.

Provide Video Footage

If you have surveillance equipment in your store, you may have captured video of the incident as it occurred. You may be able to zoom in on the fake accident in progress to see if there was anything in the way causing the person to become injured. Most likely the incident occurred out view of any cameras. You still may be able to find clues about the person's behavior if they had walked past a camera during their visit to your store. They may look suspicious as they are searching for a spot to stage their accident. They may have an accomplice distracting employees so no one is around when the incident occurs. View all video footage tapes several times to look for clues.

Collect Witnesses

If anyone was inside your store at the time the supposed injury occurred, they may have seen something happen that can prove you were not to blame for the injury. Check any credit card receipts in your cash register to match to the names of people who made purchases on the day of the injury so you can ask them if they noticed anything out of the ordinary while in your store. Check with neighboring stores to see if they saw anything strange, as well.

Provide Documentation

If the person who was injured fell, have documentation written by the person who cleaned the floor in this area proving there was nothing on the floor that would have caused them to trip. If the person claims they became hurt by something that fell from a shelf, get a statement from the stocking person saying they placed everything on the shelf orderly in a way where items could not have fallen unless they were tampered with by someone else. If a piece of equipment is to blame, have a document from the servicing company provided proving the machinery had no problems that would cause an injury unless it was used incorrectly.

Hire Some Help

Have a private investigator watch the person who claimed to be injured to see if they act normally when out of public view. Many times, someone will pretend to be injured to collect compensation, but when they believe they are not being watched they will partake in activities they would not be able to do if the injure was valid. Have the investigator available to provide the judge and jury with information they had collected, making the injury seem doubtful as a result.